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Parse to shut down on 28 Jan 2017

We have a difficult announcement to make. Beginning today we’re winding down the Parse service, and Parse will be fully retired after a year-long period ending on January 28, 2017. We’re proud that we’ve been able to help so many of you build great mobile apps, but we need to focus our resources elsewhere.

We understand that this won’t be an easy transition, and we’re working hard to make this process as easy as possible. We are committed to maintaining the backend service during the sunset period, and are providing several tools to help migrate applications to other services.

Parse will release a database migration tool and will open source ParseServer. Regardless, this is going to come as a blow to a large segment of the iOS developer community.

I’m a web and mobile developer. Parse it is a good solution for a quick app backend setup but I never realized build big things over there. To me the most important to me is no vendor lock-in I see as very important to have full control over what I’m developing. I started to use a great platform http://parse.back4app.com and Im happy with the results. I recommend it as a migration option. At any moment you can have your code totally portable.